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Arrcus exits stealth with an operating system for white box networks
There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about how “white box” networking gear that uses affordable off-the-shelf components could reduce data center costs, but adoption among enterprises remains limited. Arrcus Inc. wants to change that. The San Jose, California-based networking software startup exited stealth mode today with $15 million in funding from ...
Report: AWS could be moving into the data center networking business
Amazon Web Services Inc. may soon challenge Cisco Systems Inc. and other established network equipment makers by bringing its own switches to market, The Information reported today. The publication cited two people familiar with the matter as saying that the plan is still under consideration. Nonetheless, Wall Street is taking the prospect of AWS entering ...
Microsoft’s new TextWorld framework generates games to train AI models
Artificial intelligence models have successfully mastered modern video games such as Dota 2 that boast complex three-dimensional environments and controls. Now, Microsoft Corp. wants to up the challenge in a bid to advance AI research. The company on Thursday open-sourced TextWorld, a framework that can generate games for training neural networks. More specifically, it creates text adventures, which don’t have ...
GitHub courts enterprise developers with new code management features
When Microsoft Corp. announced plans to acquire GitHub last month, Chief Executive Satya Nadella said one of his objectives is to widen the adoption of the service among enterprise developers. Today marked a milestone toward that goal. GitHub this morning launched new features for the enterprise tier of its code hosting platform to ease software ...
Apple launches new MacBook Pros with more processing power, better displays
Apple Inc. today pulled back the curtains on new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros that offer vastly more horsepower than their predecessors, along with an array of other enhancements. It’s the 13-inch model, the more affordable of the two, that has received the biggest boost. Apple claims that the machine can provide as much as ...
Alation adds ‘governance guardrails’ to its data catalog
Alation Inc., an analytics startup founded in 2012 by Google LLC and Apple Inc. veterans, wants to reduce the risk of unreliable information getting into enterprise analytics projects. Alation’s plan for achieving this involves a new set of features called TrustCheck that it rolled out today to its flagship data catalog. The platform, which boasts big-name ...
Facebook releases new research dataset to help AI communicate better
Facebook Inc. today released an artificial intelligence dataset called Talk the Walk that aims to help computers learn how to interact with humans more naturally by exploring New York City. Currently, the communications capabilities of AI software are fairly limited. That’s because artificial neural networks learn language by analyzing sample text for statistical patterns, which isn’t a ...
Betting on aerospace, Alphabet turns Loon and Wing into standalone businesses
Alphabet Inc. is graduating two of the more daring projects that have been incubating at its X research group into independent businesses, signaling an intent to pursue the initiatives more seriously. Loon, the first new division, is building high-altitude internet balloons (pictured) that are essentially inflatable cellular towers designed to float in the stratosphere. The other project is ...
SecureAuth brings adaptive authentication to Windows and Mac
Access management provider SecureAuth Corp., which does business as SecureAuth + Core Security, today debuted two new products aimed at filling a gap in its main target market. Login for Windows and Login for Mac are built to provide what’s known as adaptive authentication. It’s an emerging method of blocking malicious login attempts that has ...
Slack gets a faster and more personalized search experience
Slack Technologies Inc. today augmented its team chat service with new search features to help workers find important files and information faster. The approximately 8 million daily users who rely on Slack do a big portion of their communications in the service. Messages consequently tend to pile up, particularly in rooms with a lot of channels. That ...